Anyone have a name I can put to this quad outlet?

[ejager]

Looking for a little help to get me started on researching this odd outlet (with built in breakers?) found in a 1969 home.

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[John Kogel]

Those little circuit breakers are still available. Usually seen on the kitchen range receptacle. Also in-floor fan heaters.

https://www.elfa.se/elfa3~eu_en/elfa/in ... &toc=20525

The only name I came up with for you was "oddball". []

Maybe they are just pushbuttons, but they look like CB's to me.

[hspinnler]

Hi Egbert,

Combination push button and wall outlets. Where the outlets switched? Here, they usually are in residential construction where the grounding plug faces up.

[ejager]

Should have posted this shot as well. I am pretty sure they were more than simple push button switches. Local inspectors have seen them on rare occasions. Usually with a cover that has the brandname imprinted... I wasn't that lucky.

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[hausdok]

I agree, they look exactly like the circuit breakers I sometimes see inside fan coil units.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[Tom Raymond]

What happened when you pushed the buttons?

Did you pull the switches? The screws are missing.

[ejager]

They do look like breakers, I was thinking of the power bars of a few years ago with the little button that popped up.

There was no response when the button was pushed. No noise, no interruption of pwer that I could tell with a $3 tester. I lack the resources to 'load test' or otherwise overload the outlet. And I know better than to start playing with 40 year old outlets. [:-graduat